Calm Before The Storm

What is the proper demeanor when staring down the barrel of uncertainty? Making unpopular decisions seems to be a very popular thing to do these days. I think it takes just as much, if not more courage to fail, as it does to succeed. I cannot emphasize enough how important communication is to making anything work be it success or failure. Proactive communication is what has gotten me this far and the story is far from over. Sit back, strike up a Pall Mall, and enjoy the show. I am learning things everyday. Things I never even knew I was supposed to know, things I would not even have cared about 3 years ago. Renascence man ladies and gentlemen...Renaissance Man.

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Torn and Broke Not Broken

As I ramp into 2009 I find myself reflecting on times when I had a total lack of responsibility and capitalized on every opportunity to act out in the face of social and moral standards. Now here I am all grown up and living in uncertain times and it completely reminds me of my younger days. Only this time I have all this responsibility and commitments. Usually being stuck in a life rut I would have circled the wagons rallied the troops and headed to the bar for a night of debauchery and mayhem. Now things are more complicated and it leaves me asking this question about how to maintain the feeling of being young in the face of some many unknowns and commitments? Sure I could throw it all away and become a bum, but I don't think it's my nature. Maybe this blog is a vent. Choose which side you're on.

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In The Mirror, Is It Always A Reflection?

It is usually around this time of year when I pose the following question: What do you do when practicality gets in the way of reason? This question was thrown out there in order to provoke conversation and debate the mundane things in our daily lives. I find my self very nostalgic and a smidgen cynical this time a year and catch my self thinking about relationships and life goals and ponder the things holding me back.

Is it reason getting in the way of not only practicality but also locking the things we are most afraid of away? I find it very ironic that the things I think I want the most of out of life are the same things I tend to sabotage first and be scared of the most. Now don't get me wrong I think I have grown as a person over the years and for the first time in my life I try to end each day as a better person than I was the day before. Yet for some reason there are things in my life that I really want to happen and feel as though my life won't be complete until they do, but are never complete for whatever reason. They are the first items on my personal "to do" list and also the first items on my subconscious sabotage list.

Is this what happens when subconscious practicality gets int he way of conscious reason?

I leave that up to you to decide.


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at the Truckstop

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Give Thanks

As you can see by the photo a good time was had by all at the the First Annual Dunbridge Truckstop Thanksgiving Day Celebration!!!!

Thanks again really.

It has been a trying week on many fronts with emotions running high as we ramp into the holiday season. I have seen acts of giving this week that have stopped me in my tracks. I had the privilege of hearing Taps played a a funeral this week and to say the least it was gut wrenching. Loosing a loved one is hard especially if it is a parent. I got to see it from a different perspective this week and the love and the strength and the people that rose to the occasion to offer comfort and support were amazing. There is strength in numbers my friends. Happy Thanksgiving and we'll talk again someday Big Ray, tell my mom I said hello.


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Miznuzak

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Silly

My ears produce a silly amount of ear wax. Silly I say!